Руфь Зернова - четыре жизни

The fate of R.A. Grain - a wonderful writer, translator, participant in the Spanish and World Wars - is like a travel novel: Odessa, Leningrad, then Bilbao, Madrid, Barcelona, ​​Paris, Riga, Moscow, Odessa, Tashkent, Leningrad again, then Amur Sredne-White and Boksitogorsk ( behind barbed wire) and again Leningrad, where she led the section of young writers. And twenty years later - Jerusalem, then life between New York, Rome, Paris and London ... This "travel novel" lacks the last chapter, the symbolic place of which is occupied by the book offered to the reader - memories of Ruth Zernova by representatives of two generations of St. intelligentsia (A. and V. Zhirmunsky, L. and A. Lotman, L. Naiditsch, I. and M. Serman, N. Koroleva and others). The bright personality of the heroine inspired the participants of the collection to reflect on time and the person in it.